Between 1770 and 1772, Philadelphia, was home to an ambitious, complex commercial and artistic undertaking that mirrored the spirit of independence taking shape throughout the city and the American colonies. Encouraged by the production of porcelain at John Bartlam’s factory outside Charleston, South Carolina, in the late 1760’s, Gousse Bonnin - an Antiguan-born ÈmigrÈ from […]

Antique Dealers TV™ announced today the launch of “Virtual Antique Shops™” that promises to be the venue of the future for all successful antique dealers everywhere. Antique Dealers TV™ is the latest development of the highly acclaimed e-commerce publisher Ray Whitmer who was born into a family with more than 160 years in the antique […]

If you’re a buyer of Chinese antiques, wait till you see the opening lot in Matheson’s AA Auctions’ March 29-30 Early Asian & Fine Art Estates sale. From an incredible private collection built in the 1960s and ’70s, the auction opener is a spectacular copper-red and white 14th-century Chinese bottle of the early Ming Dynasty […]

Hamburg - This is really a rarity, the “Liber chronicarum” of Hartmann Schedel, coloured by Johannes Cincinnius himself. Published in 1493, this book, that comes from the fabled library of the humanist Cincinnius, is one of the most comprehensive book projects of its time and probably the most sumptuously illustrated of all incunabula. Carrying an […]

It’s Appraisal Day again at Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania. People travel from near and far to this annual event, with paintings and frames in-tow, to get guidance from two of the region’s foremost fine arts experts. If you’ve always wondered what that painting is worth that your grandparents gave you, […]